Breakout Session: Privacy, policy, and social factors

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Moderators: Sarah Rajtmajer and Shomir Wilson, Penn State

~35 participants

Challenges

• unintended consequences of both tech and policy solutions

• privacy always/often at odds with other important values. Likewise, potential privacy policies often in conflict with other laws and policies, e.g., 1^st amendment, anti-trust laws

• gap between what policy will say in words and its in-practice implementations. This gap can be taken advantage of (either just map to cheapest “check-box” solution or otherwise weaponized).

• time lag of solutions is too slow (both technical and policy)

• alternative approaches for thinking about appropriate flow of personal information in the face of continued and persistent inadequacy of notice and consent frameworks, e.g.,

- dark patterns

- de-emphasizes institutional responsibility

• potential privacy enhancing tech (PETs) and policies that maintain data uses

Research Directions

• deeper study of targeted communities and their specific privacy concerns (e.g., immigrants, minorities, low-SES)... individuals who have historically been over-surveilled

Trends & other thoughts

• federated social networking platforms (e.g., Mastodon) where communities are taking back governance over their communities

• will people will need to prove competence to use the internet? (drivers license analogy)

• policy – KOSA, COPPA 2.0 (but, unintended consequences?)